Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then when I went to London , I began to find I could n't . |
| 2 | I 'd been in the presenter role long enough to know I could do It . |
| 3 | In this war of nerves , it was infinitely reassuring to know she could at least get the occasional barb past that glacial exterior . |
| 4 | Without turning on the light she sat up and reached for her bottle and glass , faintly alarmed to discover she could find them both by feel alone . |
| 5 | ‘ I never saw one thing she wanted that did not sell , ’ but nonetheless insisted that this undisciplined approach was unacceptable for a customer trying to furnish a house , who might have kept a sample for six weeks only to find she could not reorder the same fabric . |
| 6 | ‘ Because — ’ She was alarmed to find she could n't think of any good reason . |
| 7 | Excited to find she could just make out traces of narrow fields with dividing banks and walls , she ventured further towards a rounded mound which could well have been an Iron Age barrow , and just beyond it she found the standing stone , where she shivered pleasurably , her imagination running riot about the monolith 's precise function in the days when the settlement had been a live , thriving community . |
| 8 | She was relieved to find she could get in . |
| 9 | He made a gesture to indicate she could even search his bedroom . |
| 10 | ‘ The experience we gained through High Island gave us the confidence to know we could successfully work with Tatham , ’ Broussard says . |
| 11 | But er even if it did n't work we well it would n't be the end of the line financially for us but at the end of the day I think you know we 've always wanted to know we could go back and do that you know . |
| 12 | If he had n't agreed to appear we could not have raised the cash to make the show . ’ |
| 13 | Other readers , trying to buy houses , might be glad to find they could afford them . |
| 14 | The concert was a sell out , but younger fans , some with their parents , were disappointed to find they could n't get in because they were under sixteen . |
| 15 | Well erm if I 'm crystal ball gazing , I would hope that all the women in this country , whatever their colour and whatever their class , would have access to first-class provision for their young children , so that if they wished to work they could actually work in jobs that paid them enough and gave them job satisfaction . |
| 16 | For as the war spread , so the fiscal demands of the French crown to meet it could be extended with justification . |
| 17 | Admittedly they suffer great pressures on time and space , but the case of my client who had ‘ rescued ’ three large dogs , only to discover he could n't afford to have any of them vaccinated , is surely not an isolated one . |
| 18 | The singer , at No. 20 with I Just Want To Dance With You , woke up one morning to find he could n't speak . |
| 19 | Theodora applied her left leg and Cranmer was surprised to find he could do a very creditable turn on the forehand . |
| 20 | So , he gave himself a red light on the beautiful Miss Marlowe , only to find he could n't make himself obey it . |
| 21 | I enquired if he had volunteered for Pathfinders , to which he replied that he had thought about it , I told him if he wanted to come he could join my squadron . |
| 22 | They knew that the government which had passed the order prohibiting the supply of oil to Southern Rhodesia was sufficiently realistic to know it could not be enforced . |
| 23 | He 'd seen enough trees dose to the boundary to know he could use them to scale up , and his coat would protect him against the barbed wire . |
| 24 | He was sensible enough to know he could n't get away with flip , funny conversation , trying to compete with the young . |
| 25 | More positive thinking survived in one or two parts of the monolithic building in Queen Anne 's Gate , but the overall impression gained by outside observers was of a dispirited department in which no-one really seemed to know what could be done about crime in general and the prisons in particular . |
| 26 | I am hoping , with all my artistic heart , that this report turns out to be a myth , as I have tested a whole range of media including oils , only to discover what could be considered a negative quality in me : I am too damned impatient to allow the oils to dry before continuing with the painting ! |
| 27 | In 1834 Little went to study with Johannes Müller at the University of Berlin in order to discover what could be done to correct his deformity , which English surgeons refused to treat , leaving it to the bone-setters . |
| 28 | She digressed , running through in her mind the bag 's contents to discover what could have interested him . |
| 29 | To hide what could be an eyesore , Ken has built a housing around the water butt and bath that has echoes of the tea house without being obviously Japanese . |
| 30 | With the tightening of world oil demand which will come in the 1990s and the beginnings of a ‘ catching-up ’ programme of crude price increases , it is to be hoped that measures will be taken in good time to counteract what could be a politically unacceptable and potentially debilitating economic dependence on imported energy , for the US and for the rest of the Western world . |